Announcements
PARK SLOPE – New Yorkers will gather in Park Slope Monday evening to march for safer streets—one week after Dorothy Bruns ran through a red light into pedestrians [/driver-killed-two-children-license-suspended/], killing one-year-old Joshua Lew and four-year-old Abigail Blumenstein. Transportation Alternatives via Facebook
Central Brooklyn
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] SHEEPSHEAD BAY – Police are looking for two teenage bicycle thieves who robbed a 13-year old of his wheels in Sheepshead Bay over the weekend. Around 3:30 pm on Saturday, March
Announcements
Photo: Zainab IqbalPROSPECT HEIGHTS – About 500 people (including dozens and dozens of young children) showed up to Brooklyn Central Library yesterday to hear Chelsea Clinton read her new book, “She Persisted Around the World,” get their copies signed, and ask questions like — “Are you gonna be president one day?” “She
Central Brooklyn
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Animals
Photo: BKLYNERKENSINGTON – The historic Kensington Stables is safe– it has been sold to the president of the GBX-Gowanus Bay Terminal, John Quadrozzi Jr. Kensington Stables, built in the 1930s, is one of the few remaining stables in New York City and is the only one that serves Prospect Park.
Central Brooklyn
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Downtown Brooklyn
PARK SLOPE – Looking for some new dining options? Here’s a list of five new eateries that have recently debuted or will open soon in the area. Let us know if you try any of them. Via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/BlackIronBurgerNY/photos/a.604061212962365.1073741833.557381097630377/1574653659236444/?type=
Business
PARK SLOPE – The Park Slope Food Co-op is looking to expand and its asking Brooklyn residents to weigh in on where the new location should be. The Second Location Study Committee put out a survey yesterday to gain input on a number of factors, but especially the potential location
News
Scene following the crash at 9th Street & 5th Avenue (Photo courtesy of Lloyd Mitchell)PARK SLOPE – Assembly Member Robert Carroll and Senators Jesse Hamilton and Jose Peralta were joined by other elected officials at the corner of 9th Street and Fifth Avenue on Friday morning to announce increased safety
Announcements
Photo: Women’s MarchStudents, faculty, staff, and parents from schools all across Brooklyn are participating in a National School Walkout next Wednesday, March 14 at 10 am to protest gun violence. The walkout will last 17 minutes to honor the 17 victims of Parkland, Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
Arts & Culture
DOWNTOWN – Sunday, March 11 marks the final day of Spencer Finch’s Lost Man Creek [/4000-trees-grow-in-brooklyn-spencer-finchs-public-art-installation-lost-man-creek/] , a living public art installation which debuted at MetroTech Commons in October 2016. In honor of the closing, Finch and the Public
Arts & Culture
One of the six paintings missing from a Williamsburg art storage facility (Via DCPI)WILLIAMSBURG – Six paintings worth millions of dollars have gone missing from a Williamsburg storage facility, police confirmed yesterday. The paintings, from the 19th-century, were stored at Crozier Fine Arts warehouse, at 106 Bayard Street, near